Brilliant Kathy, silver in an excellent time, oh so close to gold. Kathy's own W55 ACT record was 5:49.79, set in Townsville last year. So this 5:44.10 annihilates it.
And well done Clare Wall!
In the W50 1500m Tesso was 7th in 6:09.19.

The women's 1500m was a direct clash with the women's cross country - not the most brilliant example of great programming we have ever seen - so women had to choose between them, which would explain why the numbers are down in the 1500m.

8km Cross Country results from yesterday haven't been posted yet, but I can tell you that Kathy Southgate was second outright in the women's field and won the W50 division, and Sue Archer won the W60s.

Finally, notice that John Lamb is "playing" with the M60 800m ACT record in the same way he played with the M55 record. He ran many 800s just the tiniest bit outside the M55 record, until he finally broke it. 2:21.90 is the tiniest bit outside the M60 record. Just 0.08 second, in fact, 2:21.82 set by Lindsay Hooper in the World Masters Games in Melbourne in 1987.

Thanks Janene. That was a good idea - looked at the video of runner #6032 who finished near me - shows me crossing the finish at 1:43:13. Pretty sure it took around 13 seconds to get to the start mat, so 1:43:00 net is close enough.